Tim Burton (Present)

Tim Burton is a stop motion animator born in August 1958 in California. He worked at Disney as an animator before he set off to do his own work. He's known for creating visually striking films that blend in the themes of horror and fantasy. These films include Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Batman.

Tim Burton uses many different heads and bodies for his characters so they look a bit mis-matching. The characters he makes captures the most human expressions and emotions which creates a very realistic feeling within the animation. The sets that he creates are very detailed where Burton uses dark and gloomy colour schemes to produce a frightening and eerie  atmosphere. He uses armatures, which were devised by Willis O'Brien, to create his characters so that the movements are more realistic. Burton uses a 24fps frame rate so this creates a smooth movement within the characters as it's not too fast to miss the movement and not too slow to look jerky.

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